There is something I don't understand on my Gentoo-experimentaion-box.
I modified the /etc/passwd and changed the shell for user 'nobody' to '/bin/bash'.
Than, as root, I do: 'su nobody'. What I expect is to go further as 'nobody'. But I get a 'Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied'
A 'ls -la /bin/bash' says tha the permissions of /bin/bash are 755. So, what's wrong?

There is something I don't understand on my Gentoo-experimentaion-box.
I modified the /etc/passwd and changed the shell for user 'nobody' to '/bin/bash'.
Than, as root, I do: 'su nobody'. What I expect is to go further as 'nobody'. But I get a 'Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied'
A 'ls -la /bin/bash' says tha the permissions of /bin/bash are 755. So, what's wrong?

I thin think the user nobodyhas no password by default. As root, you might try a passwd nobody to set the password._________________---Atoz